This is a very common requirement at every client using the FBA or Trusted Claims provider for their Extranet Sites. The issues with enabling search are commonly as below: The login page if its redirected to authentication the STS of the authenticating provider like Windows Live ID or Facebook If the Active Directory is enabled […]

If you get the Term store exception below while creating terms programmatically make sure the user logged into the site has the term store administrator rights for the service application instance you are making changes to. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.Internal.Security.CheckPermissions(TaxonomyRights permissions, SPAcl`1 acl, TermStore termStore, Group group, Boolean isSiteCollectionGroupCreate, SPSite siteCollectionForGroup) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.Group.CreateTermSet(String name, Guid […]

There can be multiple reason for content type publishing not working even if you have everything setup right.Enable the diagnostic logging to be “VERBOSE” on the SharePoint Server—>Taxonomy. Damn I was getting this error in the ULS logs and I could know why it was skipping the content type syndication to the webapplications Skipped […]

Since Managed Metadata Service is one of my fav’s from all the 14 SharePoint Service Applications, if you come across the error below there can be many reasons and the best way to figure it out have the ULSViewer opened and look at all the logs with “Taxonomy” category. TermStoreOperationException was caught: Failed to […]

This post would sound strange and absurd but believe me this is the easiest way to provision Site Columns( Any site column including the most spoken Managed Metadata Column) and Site Content Types, You cannot go wrong with this! You would ask why you need to create it in UI since anyways you are […]

Think if you were selling a custom webpart you would like all the css referred in your webpart correctly and use a layouts folder for deploying your custom CSS. This is a very common requirement and any easy one ! But its interesting to note that you can use the CssRegistration Control to refer a […]

Beware your workflow won’t get triggered when you are logged in as system account and creating items in a list or library. Even though the association is to run the WF on item added or changed. SO really 2 scenarios You had a bad demo when you were logged in as system account and forgot […]

Clean the certificates from the certificate store(for the user account(the farm admin account ) & My Computer Account) . Stop the SharePoint timer service and the SharePoint admin service from Services Console. Delete the xml files from Programdata\microsoft\shared\config and updated the cache.ini to 1 Run the stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs Start the timer service and the […]